root VS dotfiles

Compare root vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

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root

Posts with mentions or reviews of root. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.
  • SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2023
    NixOS hardening with (slightly wonky) tests[1], in case anyone's interested.

    [1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root/-/merge_requests/395/diffs

  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    Any home-manager users on NixOS here? Are there any killer features in home-manager for you? I tried home-manager for a bit, but just went back to plain NixOS after I couldn't find anything it did better than what I was already using ([1], [2]).

    [1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/tilde

    [2] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    You can use chezmoi to manage files outside your home directory if you really want to.

    For an example, see https://github.com/felipecrs/dotfiles:

    The `home` directory contains home directory files.

    The `root` directory contains root directory files (e.g `/etc`).

  • Running Docker on WSL2 the right way
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2021
    For example, in my dotfiles, every single of these steps are automated, including configuring /etc/docker/daemon.json, changing ~/.profile, and even providing a way to automatically update your extra binaries (docker-compose, or the wincred.exe) every time you update your dotfiles (by using a feature of chezmoi - a dotfiles manager which I totally recommend).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing root and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

homer - The home directory management tool.

wsl-open - Open files with xdg-open on Bash for Windows in Windows applications. Read only mirror from GitLab, see link :point_right:

dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup

npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.

configs - Dot-files among other configs

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™

dotfiles - My dotfiles, managed with https://chezmoi.io.

filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates

dotfiles - My dotfiles managed with chezmoi

root vs homer dotfiles vs wsl-open root vs dotfiles dotfiles vs homer root vs npt dotfiles vs dotfiles root vs configs dotfiles vs Docker Compose root vs dot-git dotfiles vs dotfiles root vs filetailor dotfiles vs dotfiles